The Dream

This can be the best tag line of the second season of the Indian Premier League. The league promises to be an absolute cracker with more teams eyeing the top 4 spots this time round. It is exciting to watch every match where all odds go for a toss and the team standing 6 in the table suddenly jumps to No. 4 by virtue of winning one match. Barring one team every team has come up with a better performance making the league a spectacle where each match whether you are playing it or not becomes important for the teams. Now, my “expert opinions” on the teams. Kolkata Knight Riders: I don’t care if the name was changed. They are still very much Bengali. The trouble is that the coach and his entire fanfare of associate staff don’t seem to realize this. They are a fantastic team on paper ripped apart by politics, overindulgence of the franchise owner and a complete clueless approach to Cricket. The team seems to be struggling on all fronts. The stars with the form, some senior players with...

Dear terrorist, I am a very harmless guy who works in a Company that has its HQ in the UK (not the US). I am a hindu by birth and believe me I had no control over that. Had I known what future had in store for me I would have definitely requested God to send me to a ‘religionless’ home. If you are wondering what I mean by that, then it means I would have requested God to have me born as a tribal in a remote place in Amazon or somewhere in Greenland. Trust me I still have your good interests in my mind. I won’t be a part of any prospering country or a citizen of the country owing much to its history and diversity exercises some amount of tolerance to these activities. Since the innocence in my birth is settled, I would like to clarify another very important aspect. I admire your religion very much. I totally believe in all that is said in the Quran and am ready to agree that it is the greatest religion ever. I am not sure you want people converted into that religion. Because when you...